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For Banca Ifis and Ifis art, the restoration and reintroduction of Banksy’s Migrant Child in Venice stems from a specific intention: to preserve the work in order to return it to the people. Above all, to return the authentic and highly powerful value of what it symbolizes. All this, through an approach made of care, responsibility, and vision. Preserving the artwork also reflects a commitment to the community and the future: once restored and legible again, Migrant Child allows art to become accessible once more, to speak to the heart, and to create bonds between memory and the present. Here lives an idea of the future founded on values, on listening, and on attention towards new generations, because they are the ones who will gather the deepest meaning of a shared heritage: not something to be preserved at a distance, but to be lived, understood, and passed on.
The rescue project, initiated by Banca Ifis in 2023, was carried out in response to the joint appeal launched by the Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Venice, and the Veneto Region.
Migrant Child by Banksy was exhibited at Tesa 113 of the Venice Arsenale, and will return to life in a space open to everyone’s attention and sensibility. During its journey to Venice, on May 8 and 9, the artwork was made available to the community, strengthening its direct connection with the public.
The artwork will once again offer itself to the city and its visitors as a concrete sign of sharing, memory, and the future: an invitation to approach art not as something distant, but as a living heritage, accessible and capable of speaking to everyone.
The return of Banksy’s artwork Migrant Child has a real impact on the community. On the unveiling of the restoration, Banca Ifis presented an educational project in collaboration with Treccani to bring art and human rights into schools. The initiative, entitled “Migrant Child – Diritti all’opera“, will involve lower secondary schools throughout Italy in the 2026–2027 school year, with the aim of strengthening the bond between civic education and creativity.
A story in pictures that retraces the birth, the meaning, and the return of Migrant Child, the artwork created by Banksy in Venice, becoming a symbol of one of the most profound tragedies of our time.
On the night between May 8th and 9th, 2019, Banksy created Migrant Child in Venice: the child with his feet submerged in water, a life jacket clutched to his chest, and a small flare pointing towards the sky. A powerful image, capable of traveling around the world in just a few days, but destined to be consumed by time and water. Today, that artwork returns to tell its story through Ifis art. Il valore della bellezza, the documentary directed by Francesco Manzato and broadcast as a premiere on Sky Arte.
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